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Arts & crafts
Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.
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Consumerism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A preoccupation with and an inclination toward the buying of manufactured goods.
Contrast (photography)
Arts & crafts; Modern art
In photography, the range of light to dark areas in the composition. An image with high contrast will have a greater variability in tonality while a photograph with low contrast ...
Cor-Ten steel
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A steel alloy that develops a rust-like appearance when exposed to weather for several years, eliminating the need for repainting. Because of this quality, it is also called ...
Curator
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A person whose job it is to research and manage a collection and organize exhibitions.
Daguerreotype
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A photographic technique invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1839. A daguerreotype uses a silver or silver-coated-copper plate to develop an image in a camera obscura. The ...
De Stijl (The Style)
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Meaning “the style” in Dutch, a term describing a group of artists and architects whose style is characterized by the use of primary colors, rectangular shapes, and asymmetrical ...
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Artist group active in Munich, Germany, from 1911 to 1914, and closely associated with the development of Expressionism. The group’s aim was to express their own inner desires in ...
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